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  • From: Ossi Kakko <ossi@kulma.net>
  • To: Hector Valenzuela <hectoruh11@GMAIL.COM>
  • Cc: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] [Fwd: organic standards for vegan or vegetarian consumers/farmers?]
  • Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:40:40 +0200

Hi,

This is a good starting point for certified organic standards for vegans :

http://www.stockfreeorganic.net/index.php?option=com_weblinks&view=category&id=34%3Astockfree-organic-services-links&Itemid=48

best wishes,
Ossi Kakko,
Fennoscandia

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 07:29:48PM -0500, Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [SANET-MG] organic standards for vegan or vegetarian
> consumers/farmers?
> From: Hector Valenzuela <hectoruh11@GMAIL.COM>
> To: SANET-MG@LISTS.IFAS.UFL.EDU
>
> Hi all-
>
> Do you have any thoughts, ideas, or experience with organic "standards" for
> vegetarian and/or vegan consumers/farmers?
>
> I understand that for them appropriate practices for Organic Farming would
> not rely on the use of animal products (manures, nor pesticides containing
> animal products).
>
> What nutrient and pest management programs would you use? I can see more
> reliance on cover crops, rotations, products such as cotton-meal (non GM)
> and alfalfa pellets, and crop residues used as mulch or composted.
>
> Are there any farmers out there that follow these stricter organic
> standards?
>
> Thank-you for any feedback or leads,
>
> Hector Valenzuela
> Univ. Hawaii at Manoa
> http://www2.hawaii.edu/~hector/
> http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/organic/
>
> Upcoming: Public Seed Initiative Symposium
> Kona, Hawaii, April 17-18, 2010
> http://www.kohalacenter.org/seedsymposium/about.html
>



  • [permaculture] [Fwd: organic standards for vegan or vegetarian consumers/farmers?], Ossi Kakko, 02/03/2010

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